Word: payments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...helping low-income groups-Social Security, welfare, Medicare, food stamps-have grown enormously, and in fiscal 1973 cost a total of $76 billion. But many Government benefits go to affluent people too. In 1970, according to one federal study, 38% of all American families were receiving some type of payment from some level of government; 22% of the families with incomes of more than $25,000 received benefits...
...time assemblyman Beame had picked to be New York's first black deputy mayor, had paid no personal income tax for four years. "I haven't committed a crime," Dinkins explained. "What I did was fail to comply with the law." "I did not seek to evade payment of taxes," he continued, "but I neglected, I failed to file." "I see no comparison with Mr. Terry," he added, sharply...
...Five weeks later, Dinkins called a press conference to admit tearfully what had been learned by the city's tough investigation commission: that he had failed to file city, state or federal income tax returns for the past four years. "I did not seek to evade payment of taxes," he tried lamely to explain. "But I neglected, I failed, to file...
Part of the payment will certainly come from French arms. Already France has reportedly contracted to sell the Saudis 38 Mirage HiE fighter-bombers, 275 AMX-30 tanks and an assortment of antitank missiles and amphibious equipment. In addition, the French are negotiating with the Saudis to equip the tanks with advanced laser aiming devices and infra-red detector systems -which would make them the most sophisticated tanks in the world...
...Mandelstams met in 1919, a time of optimistic chaos, and began living together a year later. Writers generally, and even poetic idealists like Mandelstam, found ready employment in newly formed educational and cultural agencies, where payment was usually in food and clothing. A lecture on the Russian symbolist poet Alexander Blok earned Mandelstam enough cloth for a suit and two dresses for his wife...